Elda RUSSO ERMOLLI: Researcher at the University of Naples Federico II from march 2000, she teaches Quaternary Geology from 2002. Her research fields concern the reconstruction of Quaternary climatic and environmental history of southern Italy through pollen analysis of marine and continental records. This approach allowed, with the collaboration of other italian and foreign researchers, the stratigraphic position of the investigated successions to be clarified and the vegetation history to be highlighted.

The analysis of lacustrine deposits of southern Apennines has been one of the main research themes since the PhD, discussed in 1995 at the Liege University in co-operation with the Montpellier University. As a part of this field of research you find the analysis of the lacustrine basins of Vallo di Diano (Cilento), Acerno (Mts Picentini), San Gregorio Magno (M. Marzano), Sessano (Molise) as well as the study of the fluvio-lacustrine deposits of Sant'Agata dè Goti. These studies point at recognising the glacial-interglacial cycles as well as at defining regional stratigraphical constraints based on the last occurrence or relative abundance of selected taxa.

Recent studies concern the detailed reconstruction of Holocene climatic variations in the Mediterranean through the analysis of marine, transitional and continental deposits even in archaeological context, in collaboration with the Soprintendenze Archeologiche of Campania.